“[H]orse trading determines who goes to jail and for how long. That is what plea bargaining is. It is not some adjunct to the criminal...

The criminalization of mental illness has become increasingly common in the United States. A disproportionate number of mentally-ill...

In early 2019, Front Royal and surrounding Warren County, Virginia were rocked by allegations that the executive director of the Warren...

On March 24, 2021, Gov. Ralph Northam, D-Va., ended a 400-year run of the death penalty in Virginia, making it the first southern state...

As police departments’ roles are widened beyond their expertise, police are granted vast discretion to employ tactics of force, and there is

#StopAsianHate. #BlackLivesMatter. For a plethora of reasons, 2020 and 2021 so far have been the hardest and harshest times for many people,

The violent January 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection is still fresh in our minds. As a veteran, I was particularly saddened and dismayed, yet al

On January 6, 2021, then President Trump exhorted a mob of his supporters to march on the Capitol building with a vague mission of “stopping

As COVID-19 continues to persist after hitting the year mark this March, trials have started to resume in courthouses across the country. Th

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in courts shutting down in-person appearances. Courts then turned to virtual proceedings as it continued. In

In an important first step to making substantial reform to the American criminal justice system, Illinois became the first state to abolish

In December 2020, Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge David Bernhard ordered the removal of the portraiture that hung in the courtroom...

Prisoners who committed offenses in their youths are finally getting a second chance. D.C. recently passed the Second Look Amendment Act,...

As many people already know, the Fourth Amendment limits the government’s ability to intrude upon, confiscate or detain, the physical...

The criminal justice system has various purposes, with incapacitation, otherwise referred to as incarceration, being the most common....

During the Summer of 2020, the nation saw increased protests and civil unrest throughout the country, which have led some to call it the...

In 2001, the United States Supreme Court, in Kyllo v. United States, decreed that an important facet through which to determine whether a...

As countries distribute vaccines to their citizens the world breathes a sigh of relief. In the United States health care workers and...

In 2013, the Massachusetts state crime labs were rocked by two major scandals involving two chemists: Annie Dookhan and Sonja Farak. As...

The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally altered just about every aspect of everyday life. Nearing a year since the first restrictions to...